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Has the original music from the show ever been released?
Unfortunately never. There is a Silva Screen CD with several score cues rerecorded in England conducted by Daniel Caine (SILVAD 3509). And there is also a rerecording of the main theme done by Miike Post himself which sounds quite different from the original TV version. None of the original score recordings have ever been released. Many years Mike Post was so kind to send me a DAT with the original TV version in stereo. I still listen to it all the time. And I really hope that someday Intrada or LLL will release a multi CD set with the musical highlights. I especially like the action cues and the catchy music Post composed for the scenes where the A-Team "prepares for war", which means that they constructed funny weapons out of junk. For those scenes Post always used an adaptation of the main theme.
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A couple of interesting facts about this album:
1.) "Daniel Caine" was in fact Derek Wadsworth (Composer SPACE: 1999 Season 2)
2.) In Addition to Mike Post, there are a number of other composers listed for these tracks (as well as on the HILL STREET BLUES album)
3.) My understanding is that the album's producer, Michael Jones did get access to the original scores from either the publisher or Mike Post himself which is why the album is as close to the originals as they are.
Ford A. Thaxton
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A couple of interesting facts about this album:
2.) In Addition to Mike Post, there are a number of other composers listed for these tracks (as well as on the HILL STREET BLUES album)
Ford A. Thaxton
During the 80s, Mike Post sometimes had up to 5 shows per week on the air. He always composed the theme and the first couple of episodes himself, often together with Pete Carpenter. But after that he employed several composers (for example Richard Marvin, Garry Schyman and Ron Jones) to compose the scores. That happened for example on Magnum, P.I., Hardcastle & McCormick, Hunter and Riptide. They`ve always worked with the themes by Post and Carpenter and always had to compose in the style established by Post in the first episodes. They always were given credit and always were mentioned as composers for the individual scores. Not on the TV credits but on the cue sheets (is that the right word?) so they always got their royalties. Although Mike Post got some too because they were using his themes.
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If you love THE A TEAM and don't have this album.....you should be ashamed!! As Ford said, it may not be "original" tracks but it is as good as the real thing. Crystal clear, terrific performance that is faithful to the original sound of the score. The hill street blues album is also great.
I agree that the score tracks sound quite similar to the original recordings. But unfortunately the main theme sounds quite different.
The orchestra is bigger than the original, the tempo is much faster, the recording has much more of a concert hall feeling than the original close mike recording and the military drum part at the beginning that was used for the opening monologue actually is quite different from the original.
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If you love THE A TEAM and don't have this album.....you should be ashamed!! As Ford said, it may not be "original" tracks but it is as good as the real thing. Crystal clear, terrific performance that is faithful to the original sound of the score. The hill street blues album is also great.
I agree that the score tracks sound quite similar to the original recordings. But unfortunately the main theme sounds quite different.
The orchestra is bigger than the original, the tempo is much faster, the recording has much more of a concert hall feeling than the original close mike recording and the military drum part at the beginning that was used for the opening monologue actually is quite different from the original.
For the love of God, it's a full version of the tune with a BIGGER ORCHESTRA and might be played a bit faster then the soundtrack?
Oh, so what should do?
BURN IT!!!
For the love of god, when did these things become BAD.
Ford A. Thaxton
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If you love THE A TEAM and don't have this album.....you should be ashamed!! As Ford said, it may not be "original" tracks but it is as good as the real thing. Crystal clear, terrific performance that is faithful to the original sound of the score. The hill street blues album is also great.
I agree that the score tracks sound quite similar to the original recordings. But unfortunately the main theme sounds quite different.
The orchestra is bigger than the original, the tempo is much faster, the recording has much more of a concert hall feeling than the original close mike recording and the military drum part at the beginning that was used for the opening monologue actually is quite different from the original.
For the love of God, it's a full version of the tune with a BIGGER ORCHESTRA and might be played a bit faster then the soundtrack?
Oh, so what should do?
BURN IT!!!
For the love of god, when did these things become BAD.
Ford A. Thaxton
Well, all I`m saying is that it sounds quite different from the original version. That`s all.
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Well, all I`m saying is that it sounds quite different from the original version. That`s all.
In fairness, those covers can be uneven.
Of course. And I`m not saying that the rerecording is bad. It`s just different from the original.
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Ford, your taste for rerecordings unfortunately doesn't coincide with mine. I'm a strict stickler for original material. Thanks for the tip though.
But until maybe LLL or Intrada will finally release an A-Team soundtrack with the original recordings (and I hope that this will happen in the future), the Silva CD is the only chance to hear that music apart from the show itself. And like I said except for the main title the music is quite faithfully reconstructed and performed .
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The album above is so close to the original music that it is really just as good, performance wise (not completeness). Really fine job on them.
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